FYI it’s seems like the

base-normalization

module would be failing to build from a

.venv

from scratch since 10 days ago… You would see errors about PyICU failing to be installed by pip. (This also happens in the CI but it somehow manages to fallback to an older version where it doesn’t happen) This is caused by a dependency of DBT that was upgraded in a sketchy way. So DBT also issued a patch in “dbt-19.1” and “18.2rc1" to address this by pinning the dependency to an older version: https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/3161

Can we upgrade to the new DBT version safely?

i hope so yes